Bale-tie



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAHLON GROO, OF GRAHAMSVILLE, NEW YORK.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,462, dated J' une23, 1896.

Application filed December 19, 18,95. Serial No. 572,663. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, `MAELON GEoo, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Grahamsville, in the county of Sullivan and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bale-ties.

The objects of my invention are to provide a tie, first, that may beconveniently locked about the bale; second, that may be secured againstaccidental release, and, third, that may be easily released when desiredand be preserved for repeated use.

I attain the objects of my invention by the mechanism illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of mydevice, its several parts being in a locked position. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same, its several parts being in their unlockedpositions. Fig. 3 is a detail top view of the frame ofthe lockingdevice. Fig. 4 is a detail top view of the pivoted hook. Fig. 5 is adetail side elevation of the pivoted hook. Fig. 6 is a detail top viewof the locking-lever. Fig; 7 is a detail side elevation of thelocking-lever.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the iigures of thedrawings.

In Fig. 1 the frame I is bifurcated at each end, and provided at one endwith a transverse pin 2, which passes through a link at one end of thechain and connects the chain permanently to the frame. At the other endthe frame is provided with a hooked lever 3, pivoted to the frame by thepin 4, the hooked end of the leverbeing bifurcated and adapted toreceive between its sides one of the links 5 of the chain. The adjacentlink 6 abuts against the sides of the hook and prevents the chain frombeing withdrawn in a longitudinal direction away from the frame. Theshank end 7 of the hooked lever 3 is ooncaved, adapting it for receivingthe lockinglever 8, which is pivoted to the frame by the pin 9. The endof the locking-lever is provided with lugs 10, that engage with recessesin the frame and form a means whereby the end of the locking-lever maybe raised to disengage its convex end 11 from the concave end 7 of thehooked lever. The lugs l0 are protected from being accidentally struckand raised by abutments l2 on the outside of the frame that projectbeyond the outer edges of the lugs.

-It is obvious that when the shank end 7 of the hook is pressed down forthe purpose of locking it in position the locking action of the lever 8automatically takes place,I for, let the lever 8 be in its lockedposition., the end 7 of the hook striking the end 1l will raise thelever far enough to allow the end 7 to take its locked position, whenthe lever S will fall into its locked position to securely hold thehook.

As the tension upon the chain is increased the pressure of the concaveend 7 oi the hooked lever against the convex end l1 of the locking-leveris proportionally increased, and the looking-lever is thus held moresecurely in its position.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the locking-lever raised so as to release thehooked lever. When the ylocking-lever is in this position, the pull uponthe chain, caused by the tendency of the bale to spread, turns thehooked lever about on its pivot into the position shown in this figure,and the chain is released from the hook.

In order to more clearly show the form in which I construct myinvention, I have shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 detail views of itsseveral parts. f

Having described my invention, what I claim is In a bale-tie thecombination of a frame, a

bifurcated hook pivoted therein, a chain MAI-ILON GROO. Witnesses JOHNW. GARDNER, Y N. D. ADAMS.

